b. How did Japanese control impact on peoples’ lives?
Japan’s occupation of Southeast Asia promised liberation from Western colonisation and instead a system of mutuality, friendship, autonomy, cooperation and co-prosperity. However its rule was brutal and many civilians suffered from Japan"s racial policies, its repressive regulations and - as Japan started to lose the war - the increasing economic hardships.Treatment of civilians in the newly occupied territories
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